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Should the US reduce its military budget? And if it does so ...


Reducing military spending would reign in U.S. debt and improve ...

The military budget was increased from $857 billion to $886 billion, forcing Americans into more debt and promising further US-involved conflicts around the ...

The Real World Consequences of Cutting Military Spending

The United States is on course to reduce its defense expenditures to just 2.6 percent of GDP, the lowest share since the end of World War II.

The Case for Reducing Defense Spending

Larry Korb argues that the Biden administration must reduce the US defense budget without jeopardizing national security.

Defense Spending Can and Should Be Cut | Cato at Liberty Blog

US military Fiscal hawk Brian Riedl, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, has an article in The Bulwark titled “In Defense of Defense Spending.”

Should the US reduce its military budget? And if it does so ... - Reddit

Do you think the engineers working for Raytheon are underpaid? The defense budget of 800 billion represents 3.5% of the US economy. Most of that ...

Reduce the Department of Defense's Annual Budget

Background Each year, the Department of Defense (DoD) presents a budget request to the Congress that is designed to align military forces to ...

Current Defense Plans Require Unsustainable Future Spending

US defense spending has increased nearly 50% since the start of the 21st century, with no signs of slowing down.

It's time to eliminate unnecessary military spending | News

The best strategy for cutting the Pentagon budget is not to take a meat ax to the military but to focus on major weapons systems that are unnecessary and ...

Why I was proud to be the lone vote against the defense budget

Americans oppose a bloated defense budget that privileges defense contractors' profits over a modern national security strategy and investments at home.

How Military Spending Affects the Economy - Investopedia

Military spending can be costly, but it can also stimulate the private sector and technological development. Here's how it affects ...

A nearly $1 trillion defense budget faces headwinds at home and ...

There are bipartisan calls to hit the breaks as defense spending nears $1 trillion. Others say that amount is not enough to fund U.S. ...

The United States Spends More on Defense than the Next 9 ...

Defense spending by the United States accounted for nearly 40 percent of military expenditures by countries around the world in 2023.

Focusing on quality over quantity in the US military budget

The Trump administration, with the bipartisan support of Congress, has achieved large increases in defense spending in recent years.

Military Spending in the Post-Pandemic Era – IMF F&D

Post COVID-19, countries' efforts to secure a more peaceful world could have a positive economic effect, write Benedict Clements, Sanjeev Gupta, ...

How To Cut the Pentagon Budget Without Gutting Defense

Wilson is a Policy Advisor for defense budgeting at The Heritage Foundation. U.S. Defense Department spokesperson Air Force Brigadier ...

U.S. Defense Spending in Historical and International Context

Current U.S. military spending is higher than at any point of the Cold War in inflation-adjusted terms, but relatively low as a percent of ...

Why the U.S. Military Budget is 'Foolish and Sustainable'

Benjamin H. Friedman is a research fellow in defense and homeland security studies at the Cato Institute and a Ph.D Candidate in Political Science at the ...

The Effects of Military Spending on Economic Growth

Military spending tends to have a negative impact on economic growth, and is especially detrimental to the economic growth of wealthier countries.

The United States needs to cut military spending and shift money to ...

As US defense expenditures rose in 2020 to $778 billion—that is, almost 40 percent of total military spending in the world—a third of small US ...

Budget Basics: National Defense - Peter G. Peterson Foundation

The U.S. spent $820 billion on national defense during fiscal year (FY) 2023 according to the Office of Management and Budget, which amounted to 13 percent ...